Sociology Now, Census Update

705

AARP, 91, 371
Abortion
attitudes toward, 405, 416
crime and, 187
“Abstinence pledgers,” 333–334
Academic achievement, race and, 570
Acceptance stage of dying, 361
Accountability, bureaucracy and, 97
Achieved status, 77–78
Activities, fads and, 59
Acute diseases, 534
Addictions, 541–544
Adolescence, 349, 352
sex during, 351, 352, 378
socialization in, 158–159
violence in, 159
Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relation
to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology,
Sex, Crime, Religion, and Education
(Hall), 159
Adonis complex, 527
Adoption, 400
Adulthood
late, 356–362
middle, 354–356
milestones of, 354
socialization in, 159–160
young, 352–353
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(Twain),
490
Advertising, 602–603
Advocacy research, 511
Affirmative action, 256–257
AFL-CIO, 438, 472
African Americans, 267–268. See also
Ethnicity; Race; Race and ethnicity
blackandNegroto refer to, 47
early focus on, 22
families of, 390
housing discrimination against, 254
in sociology, 34
terminology for, 274
Tuskegee experiments and, 535
Afterlife, belief in, 153, 164
Age, 346–378
aging and dying and, 358–362
chronological, 348
crime and, 191–192
functional, 348
generations of youth and, 367–371
health and, 534
identity and, 348–362

inequality and, 362–367, 371–376

poverty and, 364–365

rates and causes of death and, 360–361

sexuality and, 335

stages of life and, 349–358

in 21st century, 376

Age cohorts, 372

Ageism, 363

Age norms, 349

Agents of socialization, 150–157

education, 152

family, 151–152

mass media, 154–156

peers, 154

religion, 152–153

workplace, 156–157

Aging, 358–360

retirement and, 365–366

social isolation and, 365

Agricultural economy, 419

AIDS, 538, 544–545

Air pollution, 644

Alcohol, 541–543, 544

Alice in Wonderland(Carroll), 170

Alternative(s), search for, role exit and, 80

Alternative medicine, 547–549

American Federation of Labor (AFL), 438

American Occupational Structure(Blau and

Duncan), 228

American Revolution, 13–14

American Sociological Association, magazine

published by, 70

American sociological thinkers, 20–21

Mead’s views and, 20–21

Veblen’s views and, 20

Ward’s views and, 20

Anal stage of personality development, 148

Anger stage of dying, 361

Animals, language and, 46

Animal species, depletion of,

643

Anna Karenina(Tolstoy), 413

Anorexia nervosa, 526

Anticipatory socialization, 149

AOL-Time Warner, 432, 601–602

Apartheid, 208, 255

Armed conflicts, children employed in, 376

Ascribed status, 77, 248

Asexuality, 325–326

Asian Americans, 268, 270. See also

Ethnicity; Race; Race and ethnicity

families of, 390–391

in sociology, 35

Assembly-line production, 420

Assimilation, 272

Asylums(Goffman), 24

Attitudes, racial, changing, 255

Aum Shunrikyo, 492

Authoritarian political systems, 460–461

dictatorship, 461

monarchy, 460

oligarchy, 460–461

totalitarianism, 461

Authority

charismatic, 458

hierarchy of, in bureaucracies, 95

legal-rational, 458–459

power/knowledge and, 459

traditional, 457–458

Autoeroticism, 318

Baby boomers, 367–368

Baby boomlet, 369–370

Baby busters, 368–369, 482

Balanced reporting, 125

Barbie dolls, 528

Beauty, 522–528

anorexia nervosa and bulimia and, 526

body building and, 526–528

weight and height and, 523–526

whiteness of skin and, 523

Beliefs

in afterlife, 153, 164

spiritual, 489

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class

Structure in American Life(Herrnstein

and Murray), 261

Bellevue Baptist Church (Memphis,

Tennessee), 502

“Beltway cities,” 634

Berdaches, 288

Bertelsmann, 601

Bias, avoiding in research, 130

Bible, 508, 518

Bilineal descent, 383

Bilingual education, 568

Bilingual Education Act, 568

Bilingualism, 273

Bioartificial organs, 533

Biographical work, 539

Biological sciences, 510

Biraciality, 246–247

Biracial marriage, 398–399

Birth control, 342–343

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